shastri
"shastri" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shastri” is uncommon English (frequency #57,063 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,063
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone who teaches the shastras.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shastri · shastri · English
shastri · rank #57,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,063
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH Shelbyville
Nearest frequency peer: Shelbyville (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shastri”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sessile
sessile
42,942 corpus weight
- settee
settee
42,941 corpus weight
- Shami
Shami
42,940 corpus weight
- shastri
shastri
42,938 corpus weight
- Shelbyville
Shelbyville
42,937 corpus weight
- Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke
42,936 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shastri” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shastri |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shastri” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shastri is uncommon English at frequency #57,063 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who teaches the shastras.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shastri, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hindi शास्त्री (śāstrī). The correct English form is shastri, spelled S-H-A-S-T-R-I.
Definition
- 1Someone who teaches the shastras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shastri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sanskrit was for him the language of the shastris, who, despite their learning, were poor and dependent.
Etymology
From Hindi शास्त्री (śāstrī).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.